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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Jimmy Corsetti's Theory on the Lost City of Atlantis' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-12-01. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan experience.
- So the Atlantis one.
- Yeah, the Rishat structure.
I was wondering if you saw those videos, Joe.
- Yeah, no, that was a big one that I saw
because I've been fascinated by the concept of Atlantis.
Ever since I had these conversations
with Randall Carlson and Graham Hancock
about the Younger Dryas impact theory,
and this concept that somewhere in the roughly
around 11,000, 12,000 years ago,
we were hit by a series of comments.
And it's pretty evident that that's a fact.
If you do the core samples of the earth,
they find this nuclear glass all over the earth
that exists in that time period.
And it seems like something happened
that reset civilization.
And there's very little evidence
of advanced civilizations before that up until recently,
up until the last couple of decades,
they started uncovering things like Gobekli Tepe
and all these other structures
that are clearly from more than 12,000 years ago.
And they're really complex and really large
with enormous stones.
And it's sort of caused people to rethink the history
of the earth and the history of human civilizations.
And Atlantis has always been the big one.
That has been the one that everybody talked about,
was this incredibly advanced civilization.
And no one can figure out where it is.
- Right. - Or if it was real.
- I think that Atlantis, because surely,
that wouldn't have been necessarily the name,
just through like the change of language, you know,
over, let's say 12, 13,000 years ago,
which would be the timeframe.
So like, surely there would be several different changes
of language, but I think it represented a civilization
that was doing great things.
They were more global than what many people think
would be possible.
- Well, Atlantis was said to be a kingdom made up of,
or an empire, excuse me, made up of 10 kingdoms.
And then there was the lost city of Atlantis,
which was the capital,
which was said to be made up of concentric circles,
two of water, three of land.
And essentially that they were obliterated by a cataclysm
as passed down by Plato,
although it's worth mentioning that Plato got the story
of Atlantis from Solon,
who was his uncle separated by six generations.
But what people, most people don't realize,
is that Solon had traveled to Egypt,
and so it's the ancient Egyptians is where
that tale comes from.
Which makes it even more bizarre,
because I would argue that the most spectacular
ancient civilization is the Egyptians.
I mean, no disrespect to the Romans.
- It's hard to deny.
- Right, I mean, let me just say,
'cause I wanna, on this podcast,
encourage people to travel to Egypt.
Joe, you gotta go.
- I really want to.
A friend of mine just went and she got back
and she was telling me incredible things about it.
Jamie, will you pull up the photos
of these concentric circles, tell him?
- Yeah, the Rishat, R-I-C-H-A-T.
- He's got it already here.
- Yeah, in the first couple,
I just wanna say it's Rishat,
I used to call it Rick-Hot,
I was mispronouncing it.
But let me ask you this, Joe, real quick.
When you saw my video,
was that the very first time
you had ever seen this thing before?
- Yes, yeah.
- That's the thing, so many.
When I first saw this, I was like,
"What the fuck is that?"
By the way, you see that white,
all those white blemishes?
- Uh-huh.
- That's salt.
This was under the ocean and people,
let me just say,
you mentioned Randall Carlson and Graham Hancock,
I love them.
And I know for sure that they don't particularly think
this is the site for a few different reasons.
So let me say there's absolute doubt,
even I am not 100% certain,
I'm not even 100% certain that lands has existed,
what I am certain is that humans
were doing spectacular things in a civil,
a cataclysmic event happened called the Younger Dryas
and reset something for somebody.
- Is there a natural explanation for this formation?
- Yes, so let me say that it is considered
to be mysterious.
They're not 100% certain of it.
However, the consensus is that it was a volcanic dome
that had risen and collapsed multiple times
like 100 million years ago, allegedly.
I say allegedly,
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with that,
I'm just saying I would like to know where sometimes
they get these figures from.
Like explain to me why it was 100 million years ago
and not 99 or 98,
because here we are talking about how crazy things changed
in just the last 12, 13,000 years.
So when they throw around these numbers,
you know, one million years in itself
is an incredibly long period of time.
But getting back to your question,
some had originally thought that maybe it was an impact site
from a, you know, an asteroid or perhaps,
but there's no evidence for it.
- Well, the problem is there's these concentric circles.
- Yeah.
- I've never seen anything,
I mean, obviously I'm not an archeologist,
but I've never seen anything like this in...
I mean, if you study structures that are like man-made structures,
I've never seen anything like this that humans have made,
but I've definitely never seen like...
Go to that one where your cursor's on, Jamie.
- Yeah, please.
- So is this...
- You wanna see some?
All right, I'm sorry.
- What is this?
Okay, one step at a time,
because we also have to take into consideration
and people are just listening.
So kind of describe what we're looking at here.
- Okay, so what you're looking at
is approximately 250 miles inland
in the total barren desert of Mauritania, Africa.
So the Western Sahara.
- But this image looks like, why is it blue?
- That's just showing you the...
- What it used to look like?
- No, this is what it looks like right now through...
I forgot what you call this type of animation,
but it's essentially it's a satellite imagery
that they enhanced in order for you to see
the difference in elevation
and the actual structure to itself.
- Okay, so like if there was water in this area,
you would see it this way,
that it would be these concentric circles
that are raised above the water
and then the water would be inside of it like that.
- Well, just to clarify, this particular image,
no, this is not trying to represent water.
So that blue is actually picking up on salt, so...
- Salt, all that was salt.
But I mean, it used to be underwater, right?
It's salt because it was underwater.
- That's what I believe.
And that's what makes the most sense to me.
Others will disagree and let me tell you why.
It is currently 1,200, 1,300 feet above sea level.
It's 250 miles inland.
And so some people say this was never under the ocean,
at least not for the last tens of millions of years
is what the scientists claim.
I argue that since the salt is still there,
and not only that, Jamie,
if you go to the other images
that show you more of the white,
the one that you were previously on,
the one to the middle to the left, right there.
So those areas with the most white blemishes
happen to be the areas
that are the lowest in elevation,
which to me tells me that saltwater had settled there.
But not only that, Joe.
Atlantis was said to be, like we said,
multiple rings of water and land.
However, it was said to open to the sea to the south.
And what you're looking at here,
the south, so this is oriented north, south, east, and west.
What do you see to the south?
And especially if we could get another--
This is a very flat area that looks like
it's the lowest elevation,
like around it looks like it's higher.
I mean, it's hard to tell from this image.
Jamie, will you Google map it?
Just type in, even if you went to Mortania,
so you could see this from space.
Astronauts use it as a locator,
and they weren't really familiar or aware of it
until the Gemini missions in the early 1960s.
So if you go to, like if you just go to Google Earth,
you could, you'll be able to find this quite quickly.
It stands out, and it's why they call it the Eye of Africa
or the Eye of the Sahara.
All right, so just pan out a little bit,
and it'll provide us with a much--
Yeah, keep going.
All that white is salt.
In fact, I have a friend, Josh Sigurdsson,
who went out there and tasted that shit off the fucking ground.
That's salt, because a lot of people say,
"This was never under the ocean!"
And I'm like, all right, you see all that?
Even Randall Carlson himself, which, let me just say,
he, for a few reasons, doesn't--
He favors the Azores.
He doesn't think this is likely to be the location for a few reasons.
He favors what?
The Azores, the island chained, which would be--
And he thinks that that was Atlantis?
To him, he's partial towards that.
So he analyzed this site, and you see all those striations,
how it looks like the ocean--
So that's all water erosion, Joe.
And if you scroll in--
So remember when Randall was on your show and he showed you
the Missoula floodplains and all those giant ripples
from the huge current that it went through?
This is here.
So scroll in, right there where your cursor is, Jamie.
Yeah, scroll right in.
You're going to see those same water ripples.
Keep going, because what you're looking at here is panned out.
This is many miles.
Keep in mind, this structure is 30 miles across.
That's crazy.
That looks like the bottom of the ocean,
like if you see where the water breaks on the sand.
Yep, and I have--
Wow, that's crazy.
And that, just to clarify, that salt--
or excuse me, that white is salt.
And that is the--
because that's-- a lot of people don't know, Joe,
that the Sahara Desert wasn't a thing
until approximately 5,000 years ago.
It's only in the last several years--
and by the way, I'm quoting MIT research here--
that the Sahara goes back and forth from green to desert
approximately every 20,000 years.
They believe it has something to do with the Earth's tilt,
and that's worth discussing.
But so this whole area--
because people are like, well, that's not Atlantis.
I'm like, well, first of all, if this whole--
if the Western-- or excuse me, the Sahara Desert
was a lush green tropical paradise,
which had the largest known freshwater lakes
ever known to have existed, for example,
Mega Lake Chad, which is--
it's like three times more water surface
than all of the North American Great Lakes combined.
It's a big sucker.
Holy shit.
How is it not an ocean?
I know, well--
It's all freshwater?
It was when it existed, and that was at the time
when the Sahara was green.
And it also had some of the largest known rivers exist--
that were known to have existed throughout the world.
I think they'd still be ranked 10th today
or something like that.
But so you have to-- when you see this,
people have to imagine that this area was once green,
and that if that-- because one of the arguments I make
is that the fact that that salt is on top of that dirt, to me,
is indicative that the ocean flowed over here
far more recently than what people think.
How wide is this structure?
OK, so--
These concentric circles.
I meant to bring-- I brought a laser.
Do you have a laser pointer in here?
No.
It's OK.
The circles themselves is about 14 1/2 miles across.
However, if you go the complete shebang,
the whole circle itself is just shy of 30 miles.
So the whole thing is 30 miles,
which would be like the size of a city.
Right.
Well, keep in mind, the outer ring would have been water.
So that wouldn't have necessarily counted.
But some people will say that this is too big,
according to Plato's description.
And let me just say that I'm like,
well, hold on a second.
I don't think that we should consider that--
because of loss of translation--
that we should consider the measurements a key detail.
The question becomes, is it big enough to be a city
with possibly millions of people?
Because the way it was described
is that it was a city that was said to be busy all day,
all night, rich in trade, with languages spoken from all over.
So I'm like, OK, that would imply millions of people.
I mean, if a city is busy all day and all night,
I think of large metropolitan areas
like New York, Chicago, London, whatever.
And so if this was indeed an ancient or a site
of an ancient civilization, well, then it would have--
I mean, they're obviously not going to have skyscrapers.
So it would have to be an area big enough to sustain that many people.
And the Rishat structure certainly does.
And so the idea would be that this would lead out to the ocean
and that these circles would be where the water is
and the ridges would be where the structures are, where the houses
and the buildings are.
And people will say, well, where is that stuff now?
I'm like, well, look at it.
It got obliterated.
Yeah, those people should shut the fuck up.
Well, that's to say--
But if you just look at what's going on with the sand
and those clear water erosion marks on the sand,
but that also could be wind, right?
Couldn't the way that the ripples in that sand,
couldn't that be wind?
Both, however, just to clarify--
Because is that sand where the cursor's at right there?
Yes, that's all sand.
However, it's also--
Actually, go to the right where it says layers, Jamie.
Can you scroll in right there?
Because those will show you the ripples more.
So it's a combination of sand and rock in between.
You mean to the left, lower left?
Right there, that's what I'm talking about.
Those are giant ripples.
And let me just say, I'm quoting Randall Carlson,
who I consider to be an expert on geological formations.
And so, yeah.
Right, but isn't that what wind-driven sand looks like?
If you go to dunes, dunes look like that.
Yeah, and undoubtedly--
But hold on, this is sand, right?
Yes, well, it's combination, rock and sand in between.
Right, but this is what it would look like
if wind-driven sand and rock underneath it.
Right, so the implication is that it was blasted by water,
and then after that, the wind has done its thing
and moved the sand all over it and in between.
So 20,000 years ago, this was all green lush forest?
No, Joe, 5,000.
5,000, really?
So I could-- yes, so I could show you--
When do they think Atlantis was?
Is there--
11,600 is allegedly when it was destroyed, which mirrors the Younger Dryas
climate catastrophe.
Because-- so Plato had-- so this is 600 BC, and Plato said that it happened 9,000
years earlier.
So that would be 11,600 years ago, which coincides with the Younger Dryas
climate catastrophe,
which makes it so compelling.
To me, that is actual scientific evidence that indicates that Atlantis actually
existed.
Because it's very specific.
Well, sort of.
It is very specific, but it's not scientific, right?
Well--
It's like there's no real evidence.
Okay, let me rephrase.
That a civilization--
It's just a depiction.
Yes, let me rephrase.
A civilization got fucked.
11,600.
Yeah.
11,600.
So never mind Atlantis.
Let me rephrase.
A civilization was around.
The stories of it were passed down, and they got obliterated.
So that's what I'm implying.
Well, we all-- we definitely know that the Younger Dryas impact theory is
extremely plausible.
There are, without a doubt, many, many impact points on Earth where they find
this tritonite,
it's nuclear glass, which you can get either from a nuclear explosion or you
get it from some sort of a meteor impact,
large scale, you know, all over the continent.
And we know that-- all over the planet, I should say-- we know that that
happened.
This is like real hardcore geological evidence.
So if we know that there were structures before that, which we do now because
of Gobekli Tepe and a few other places
that they're reasonably sure were pre 11,000 years ago, 12,000 years ago,
then we know that something was around back then that was very sophisticated.
How sophisticated we don't know.

Jimmy Corsetti's Theory on the Lost City of Atlantis

- The Joe Rogan experience.
- So the Atlantis one.
- Yeah, the Rishat structure.
I was wondering if you saw those videos, Joe.
- Yeah, no, that was a big one that I saw
because I've been fascinated by the concept of Atlantis.
Ever since I had these conversations
with Randall Carlson and Graham Hancock
about the Younger Dryas impact theory,
and this concept that somewhere in the roughly
around 11,000, 12,000 years ago,
we were hit by a series of comments.
And it's pretty evident that that's a fact.
If you do the core samples of the earth,
they find this nuclear glass all over the earth
that exists in that time period.
And it seems like something happened
that reset civilization.
And there's very little evidence
of advanced civilizations before that up until recently,
up until the last couple of decades,
they started uncovering things like Gobekli Tepe
and all these other structures
that are clearly from more than 12,000 years ago.
And they're really complex and really large
with enormous stones.
And it's sort of caused people to rethink the history
of the earth and the history of human civilizations.
And Atlantis has always been the big one.
That has been the one that everybody talked about,
was this incredibly advanced civilization.
And no one can figure out where it is.
- Right. - Or if it was real.
- I think that Atlantis, because surely,
that wouldn't have been necessarily the name,
just through like the change of language, you know,
over, let's say 12, 13,000 years ago,
which would be the timeframe.
So like, surely there would be several different changes
of language, but I think it represented a civilization
that was doing great things.
They were more global than what many people think
would be possible.
- Well, Atlantis was said to be a kingdom made up of,
or an empire, excuse me, made up of 10 kingdoms.
And then there was the lost city of Atlantis,
which was the capital,
which was said to be made up of concentric circles,
two of water, three of land.
And essentially that they were obliterated by a cataclysm
as passed down by Plato,
although it's worth mentioning that Plato got the story
of Atlantis from Solon,
who was his uncle separated by six generations.
But what people, most people don't realize,
is that Solon had traveled to Egypt,
and so it's the ancient Egyptians is where
that tale comes from.
Which makes it even more bizarre,
because I would argue that the most spectacular
ancient civilization is the Egyptians.
I mean, no disrespect to the Romans.
- It's hard to deny.
- Right, I mean, let me just say,
'cause I wanna, on this podcast,
encourage people to travel to Egypt.
Joe, you gotta go.
- I really want to.
A friend of mine just went and she got back
and she was telling me incredible things about it.
Jamie, will you pull up the photos
of these concentric circles, tell him?
- Yeah, the Rishat, R-I-C-H-A-T.
- He's got it already here.
- Yeah, in the first couple,
I just wanna say it's Rishat,
I used to call it Rick-Hot,
I was mispronouncing it.
But let me ask you this, Joe, real quick.
When you saw my video,
was that the very first time
you had ever seen this thing before?
- Yes, yeah.
- That's the thing, so many.
When I first saw this, I was like,
"What the fuck is that?"
By the way, you see that white,
all those white blemishes?
- Uh-huh.
- That's salt.
This was under the ocean and people,
let me just say,
you mentioned Randall Carlson and Graham Hancock,
I love them.
And I know for sure that they don't particularly think
this is the site for a few different reasons.
So let me say there's absolute doubt,
even I am not 100% certain,
I'm not even 100% certain that lands has existed,
what I am certain is that humans
were doing spectacular things in a civil,
a cataclysmic event happened called the Younger Dryas
and reset something for somebody.
- Is there a natural explanation for this formation?
- Yes, so let me say that it is considered
to be mysterious.
They're not 100% certain of it.
However, the consensus is that it was a volcanic dome
that had risen and collapsed multiple times
like 100 million years ago, allegedly.
I say allegedly,
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with that,
I'm just saying I would like to know where sometimes
they get these figures from.
Like explain to me why it was 100 million years ago
and not 99 or 98,
because here we are talking about how crazy things changed
in just the last 12, 13,000 years.
So when they throw around these numbers,
you know, one million years in itself
is an incredibly long period of time.
But getting back to your question,
some had originally thought that maybe it was an impact site
from a, you know, an asteroid or perhaps,
but there's no evidence for it.
- Well, the problem is there's these concentric circles.
- Yeah.
- I've never seen anything,
I mean, obviously I'm not an archeologist,
but I've never seen anything like this in...
I mean, if you study structures that are like man-made structures,
I've never seen anything like this that humans have made,
but I've definitely never seen like...
Go to that one where your cursor's on, Jamie.
- Yeah, please.
- So is this...
- You wanna see some?
All right, I'm sorry.
- What is this?
Okay, one step at a time,
because we also have to take into consideration
and people are just listening.
So kind of describe what we're looking at here.
- Okay, so what you're looking at
is approximately 250 miles inland
in the total barren desert of Mauritania, Africa.
So the Western Sahara.
- But this image looks like, why is it blue?
- That's just showing you the...
- What it used to look like?
- No, this is what it looks like right now through...
I forgot what you call this type of animation,
but it's essentially it's a satellite imagery
that they enhanced in order for you to see
the difference in elevation
and the actual structure to itself.
- Okay, so like if there was water in this area,
you would see it this way,
that it would be these concentric circles
that are raised above the water
and then the water would be inside of it like that.
- Well, just to clarify, this particular image,
no, this is not trying to represent water.
So that blue is actually picking up on salt, so...
- Salt, all that was salt.
But I mean, it used to be underwater, right?
It's salt because it was underwater.
- That's what I believe.
And that's what makes the most sense to me.
Others will disagree and let me tell you why.
It is currently 1,200, 1,300 feet above sea level.
It's 250 miles inland.
And so some people say this was never under the ocean,
at least not for the last tens of millions of years
is what the scientists claim.
I argue that since the salt is still there,
and not only that, Jamie,
if you go to the other images
that show you more of the white,
the one that you were previously on,
the one to the middle to the left, right there.
So those areas with the most white blemishes
happen to be the areas
that are the lowest in elevation,
which to me tells me that saltwater had settled there.
But not only that, Joe.
Atlantis was said to be, like we said,
multiple rings of water and land.
However, it was said to open to the sea to the south.
And what you're looking at here,
the south, so this is oriented north, south, east, and west.
What do you see to the south?
And especially if we could get another--
This is a very flat area that looks like
it's the lowest elevation,
like around it looks like it's higher.
I mean, it's hard to tell from this image.
Jamie, will you Google map it?
Just type in, even if you went to Mortania,
so you could see this from space.
Astronauts use it as a locator,
and they weren't really familiar or aware of it
until the Gemini missions in the early 1960s.
So if you go to, like if you just go to Google Earth,
you could, you'll be able to find this quite quickly.
It stands out, and it's why they call it the Eye of Africa
or the Eye of the Sahara.
All right, so just pan out a little bit,
and it'll provide us with a much--
Yeah, keep going.
All that white is salt.
In fact, I have a friend, Josh Sigurdsson,
who went out there and tasted that shit off the fucking ground.
That's salt, because a lot of people say,
"This was never under the ocean!"
And I'm like, all right, you see all that?
Even Randall Carlson himself, which, let me just say,
he, for a few reasons, doesn't--
He favors the Azores.
He doesn't think this is likely to be the location for a few reasons.
He favors what?
The Azores, the island chained, which would be--
And he thinks that that was Atlantis?
To him, he's partial towards that.
So he analyzed this site, and you see all those striations,
how it looks like the ocean--
So that's all water erosion, Joe.
And if you scroll in--
So remember when Randall was on your show and he showed you
the Missoula floodplains and all those giant ripples
from the huge current that it went through?
This is here.
So scroll in, right there where your cursor is, Jamie.
Yeah, scroll right in.
You're going to see those same water ripples.
Keep going, because what you're looking at here is panned out.
This is many miles.
Keep in mind, this structure is 30 miles across.
That's crazy.
That looks like the bottom of the ocean,
like if you see where the water breaks on the sand.
Yep, and I have--
Wow, that's crazy.
And that, just to clarify, that salt--
or excuse me, that white is salt.
And that is the--
because that's-- a lot of people don't know, Joe,
that the Sahara Desert wasn't a thing
until approximately 5,000 years ago.
It's only in the last several years--
and by the way, I'm quoting MIT research here--
that the Sahara goes back and forth from green to desert
approximately every 20,000 years.
They believe it has something to do with the Earth's tilt,
and that's worth discussing.
But so this whole area--
because people are like, well, that's not Atlantis.
I'm like, well, first of all, if this whole--
if the Western-- or excuse me, the Sahara Desert
was a lush green tropical paradise,
which had the largest known freshwater lakes
ever known to have existed, for example,
Mega Lake Chad, which is--
it's like three times more water surface
than all of the North American Great Lakes combined.
It's a big sucker.
Holy shit.
How is it not an ocean?
I know, well--
It's all freshwater?
It was when it existed, and that was at the time
when the Sahara was green.
And it also had some of the largest known rivers exist--
that were known to have existed throughout the world.
I think they'd still be ranked 10th today
or something like that.
But so you have to-- when you see this,
people have to imagine that this area was once green,
and that if that-- because one of the arguments I make
is that the fact that that salt is on top of that dirt, to me,
is indicative that the ocean flowed over here
far more recently than what people think.
How wide is this structure?
OK, so--
These concentric circles.
I meant to bring-- I brought a laser.
Do you have a laser pointer in here?
No.
It's OK.
The circles themselves is about 14 1/2 miles across.
However, if you go the complete shebang,
the whole circle itself is just shy of 30 miles.
So the whole thing is 30 miles,
which would be like the size of a city.
Right.
Well, keep in mind, the outer ring would have been water.
So that wouldn't have necessarily counted.
But some people will say that this is too big,
according to Plato's description.
And let me just say that I'm like,
well, hold on a second.
I don't think that we should consider that--
because of loss of translation--
that we should consider the measurements a key detail.
The question becomes, is it big enough to be a city
with possibly millions of people?
Because the way it was described
is that it was a city that was said to be busy all day,
all night, rich in trade, with languages spoken from all over.
So I'm like, OK, that would imply millions of people.
I mean, if a city is busy all day and all night,
I think of large metropolitan areas
like New York, Chicago, London, whatever.
And so if this was indeed a